Restoration expert Andy Saunders' 'Apollo Remastered' is a time capsule of human spaceflight
"Apollo Remastered" shows the Apollo program like you've never seen it before with expert digital restoration of some of the most iconic and historic photographs in NASA's history.As one of the preeminent experts in NASA digital restoration, British author Andy Saunders has gathered 400 of the most striking and dramatic images taken on all of the Apollo moon missions out of more than 20,000 Hasselblad Data Camera shots and stacked 16mm film frames.
"One thing people ask is if the cameras get better or if they used different equipment, but they didn't. They adapted the cameras very slightly but what they did do is that they got better at taking photographs. Then at the end of every mission they'd critique the photographs and speak to the astronauts that took them." Using cutting-edge technology and special digital techniques, Saunders was able to revive these vintage photos in a way that will leave readers dumbstruck.
Saunders points out that taking posed snapshots wasn't the thing to do during Apollo. Photographs were typically composed for scientific rationale or from a geological point of view. "The idea was never to idolize the astronauts so they tended not to take many selfies or posed shots of each other," he says."might be the one exception. But Apollo 17 has a much higher proportion of those and that may be partly because they were conscious that it was the last human mission for some time. They were also keen to getting the"They were a very enthusiastic crew, particularly Gene Cernan.
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